Marcia F. Katz ’79

Marcia F. Katz ’79, of Winter Park, Fla., formerly of Houston; Mar. 26, after a three-year battle with pancreatic cancer. She was associate dean of clinical affairs at University of Central Florida College of Medicine before retiring in 2020 with the title of UCF professor emerita. During her tenure, she worked closely with UCF hospitals and the community to build an academic clinical service system. Prior to moving to Florida, she served as Baylor College of Medicine’s associate chair of medicine for clinical affairs and medical director of the department of medicine. In addition, she was the chief of adult medicine at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women and spearheaded the development of Baylor’s lung institute. She had a powerful impact on the cystic fibrosis community. She was the medical director of the Baylor Maconda Brown O’Connor Adult CF Center and sat on the Center Committee of the CF Foundation. She also served as the coprincipal investigator of the CF Therapeutic Development Center in 2012. She was awarded the Ben and Margaret Love Foundation Bobby Alford Award for Academic Clinical Professionalism, Baylor’s highest award given to a medical school faculty member, recognizing her outstanding humanism. Marcia faced cancer without missing a beat by continuing to travel the world with her husband, visiting Rwanda, Botswana, and Namibia. She took a bike and river cruise on the Rhine with her twin sister and some of her best friends, and biked over 100 miles. During her last few years, she became an avid gardener and birder. She is survived by her husband, Asher; two daughters, including Rebecca Wolinsky ’14; two stepdaughters; her mother; three sisters; two brothers-in-law; and a nephew.